Chief Minister Raman Singh will preside over the meeting of the Chhattisgarh Rural Employment Guarantee Council of the Panchayat and Rural Development Department on Wednesday at 1:00 pm at the Mantralaya.
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ajay Chandrakar will be also be present as special invitee.
Agriculture and Water Resources, Public Works Department, Public Health Engineering, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Development, Backward Castes and Minorities' Development, Forest, law and Parliamentary Affairs, labour Departments have also been invited to the meeting.
The Union Panchayat and Rural Development Ministry had sanctioned `685 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) for Chhattisgarh in April this year. The amount is sanctioned as first installment for the fiscal 2015-16. The wages for unskilled labourers has been hiked to `159 per day.
The officers of Panchayat and Rural Development Department revealed that earlier the wages for unskilled workers was fixed at `157 per day.
They said that labour budget for 1,234 lakh Mandays was sanctioned for the fiscal year April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016.
The Chhattisgarh government has decided to generate about 2.76 lakh job works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during next fiscal 2015-16.
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ajay Chandrakar while chairing a review meeting early this year was informed by officials that a detailed programme has been prepared for implementation of the scheme. About 2.80 crore man-days of work will be created for the scheme.
During the meeting, the Minister reviewed the programmes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Rural) , Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, MlA's Model Village Yojana, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA), National Rural livelihood Mission and Indira Awaas Yojana and other schemes operated by the Department during the meeting.
Chandrakar said apart from development works a ‘Cleanliness Campaign’ will also be launched in a big way. It is essential that the citizens should participate in the campaign, he said.
The officers of the Panchayat and Rural Development Department should co-operate with the rural populace and make it a success. Chhattisgarh should be made an ideal State in the entire nation, the Minister said.
He urged the officers to observe the village environment , soil, water resources and the basic needs of the people to start developmental works.
Chandrakar said all the villages should have the basic facilities at par with cities by utilising the MP Model Village Scheme and MlA Model Village Scheme.
All the villages should be developed on the pattern of Model Villages. The people's participation should be ensured so that the villages become self-sufficient, he said. The Chhattisgarh government in February this year had targetted to generate about 2.76 lakh job works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during 2015-16.
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ajay Chandrakar while chairing a review meeting was informed by officials that a detailed programme has been prepared for implementation of the scheme. About 2.80 crore man-days of work will be created for the scheme, they had stated.
The State government had announced in February this year that employment was given to about 17 lakh villagers as per their demand under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) so far in the current financial year (2014-15). More than 87000 labourer families have received work for 100-150 days, officials said.
They said that as many as 46865 labourer families received job for 100 days while 40845 labourer families received job for 150 days. As many as 15011 differently abled persons have also received employment under the scheme.
The officers of Panchayat and Rural Development Department informed that approval was given for 2.08 lakh works under MGNREGS. An amount of `1825 crores was made available out of which 1534 crores have been utilized to complete 34000 works.
The officers informed that as many as 52 lakh work days were created this year which includes 275 lakh work days for women, 176 lakh work days for ST and 60 lakh work days for SC families.